This City hereby contracts and agrees to cooperate with each
City, Town and Village within St. Louis County, Missouri, for certain
common Police service under the terms and conditions contained in
this Chapter.

This contract insofar as it is applicable to any particular
municipality may be terminated at any time by any party hereto thirty
(30) days after service upon the Clerk of the other contracting municipalities
of a certified copy of an ordinance terminating the contract of such
municipality.

The members of the Police force of this municipality shall respond
to requests for assistance within the boundary limits of any other
contracting municipality, pursuant to the directions and approval
of the office of the Chief of Police of the City.

It shall be the duty of the members of the Police force of this
community to perform Police services in any municipality that is a
party to this contract when requested by such municipality and authorized
to do so by the office of the Chief of Police of the City.

All Police Officers performing services in any other municipality
in accordance with the terms of this contract shall have all the powers,
rights, privileges, duties and immunities as the members of the Police
force of the municipalities requesting assistance but shall remain
in the employment and under the direction, supervision and control
of the proper officers and authorities of their own respective municipalities.

Equipment and property utilized in the carrying out of the common
Police services provided by this contract shall be at the risk of
the municipality owning the same and any loss or damage thereto shall
be borne by such owner municipality; however, nothing herein contained
shall be construed to limit the liability of any municipality or of
its agents, servants or employees arising out of tortious conduct.

Definition. "Emergency situation", as
used in this Section, means any situation in which the law enforcement
officer has a reasonable belief that a crime is about to be committed,
is being committed, or has been committed involving injury or threat
of injury to any person, property, or governmental interest and such
officer's response is reasonably necessary to prevent or end such
emergency situation or mitigate the likelihood of injury involved
in such emergency situation.

Authorized. Any officer of the City who has completed the
Basic Police Training Program, as promulgated by Chapter 590, RSMo.,
shall have the authority to respond to an emergency situation as herein
defined outside the boundaries of the City.

Definition. For the purpose of this Section, the "major case squad" means any formation, operation, organization
or cooperative action between any County, Governing Body, any municipal
government and the City, the purpose of which is intensive professional
investigation of certain individual crimes that may occur in their
general geographical area and which is operated and activated on request
of a County Sheriff, County Police Superintendent or the Police Chief
of a political subdivision wherein a crime has occurred.

Authorized. The officers of the City Police Department
are authorized to participate in and cooperate with any Law Enforcement
Officers of jurisdictions in any major case squad operation or formation.
The officers designated to act as the major case squad operation will
be so designated by the Chiefs of Police and when acting outside of
the City as a member of the major case squad operation shall be considered
to be on active duty the same as if acting within the boundaries of
the City.